Wednesday this week we had no life model, so in place of the usual exercise we looked at footage of 'The Birds', and compiled key scenes into a storyboard as practise. Since I've been looking and making storyboards in my spare time anyway, I probably had some experience to work off in something more proper like this image.
While making this you can see how I've used chalk and charcoal to produce a more horror like atmosphere, something like a heavy shade with ghostly highlights. Before drawing down the actual stills I made sure to divide up the page into several key scenes, their size relating to their individual importance. I put less effort into the transitional frames (top left two) since they were smaller to start off with. Because I didn't quite agree with the last frame I added birds in tandem with the pose the actress had on the still chosen. Understanding the separate elements that come together to produce a story makes a storyboard much more meaningful, especially when there is no dialogue to indicate narrative directly.
For those who didn't realise how things should come together, take a look at this picture that I found online on a posting forum. I set it as my desktop background so I could make the most out of examining it as things loaded. We can see by the crows that the center of attention is the deceased lamb, the conflicting element is the ewe who is mourning at the passing of her offspring, and by the amount of crows depicted, there has been a long period of time since the lamb passed away. Bringing all this together simply by seeing the elements composed on a picture goes to show the importance of proper production regarding storyboards.
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